A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

Ancient eruptions may have triggered conditions for oxygen ‘whiffs’ in the atmosphere In a nutshell Massive volcanic events ...

For billions of years, Earth’s atmosphere lacked the oxygen necessary to sustain complex life. While scientists have long ...

Earth’s climate over millions of years is shaped by both internal forces, like volcanic activity, and external ones, such as ...

Experts hope the minerals they find via this method will “power green, renewable energy sources for a sustainable future.” ...

Scientists discovered that volcanic eruptions in India’s Deccan Traps 66 million years ago released gases that altered ...

Learn more about how complex life on Earth likely wouldn’t have been possible without volcanic activity.

Volcanologists at the Alaska Volcano Observatory have been monitoring volcanic unrest since April of last year.

But scientists think that in the past, these huge eruptions caused some of the planet's biggest mass extinctions. The first hint that a volcano might erupt is usually a lot of tiny earthquakes.

An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the sequence of events during the last million years before the extinction of ...

The study, led by Adomas Valantinas of Brown University and published in Nature Communications, has confirmed the real reason ...